It may have practically no IPC gains over its predecessor, but Intel's 7th generation Core "Kaby Lake" unlocked processors are shaping up to be an overclocker's delight. A Core i7-7700K sample tested by professional overclocker Allen "Splave" Golibersuch was able to breach the 7 GHz barrier. To achieve this feat however, HyperThreading was disabled, and two of the four CPU cores were also disabled.

Paired with an ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard, the i7-7700K was bench-stable at 7022.96 MHz, at the chip's maximum base clock multiplier of 69x, and a base-clock of 101.78 MHz. The Vcore voltage was set at a scorching 2.00V. The chip crunched PiFast in 9.02 seconds, SuperPi 32M in 4 minutes 20.25 seconds, wPrime 32M in 2.953 seconds, and wPrime 1024M in 1 minute 33.171 seconds. Paired with an ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX OC graphics card, it scored 643,316 points in Aquamark, and 86,798 points in 3DMark 05.

Full cores and HT or go away. Why not just have 1 core and claim 8GHz? :rolleyes: Even if it's just a highest clock bench, like for others, I only consider it valid if all cores and HT were used. If not, they've basically cheated their way to 7GHz...

Well, I tried last year. Now all of my relatively overclockable HW is gone.
What's really sad, is that after a year of doing nothing I went from #11 on TPU team up to #8 :banghead:
Not even sure if there are any active members left...